Nanaimo’s Brad Davis
splashes back to the
beach, tub in tow, as he
nears the finish line at
Departure Bay on Sunday
afternoon at the Great
International World Championship Bathtub Race.
Davis won the stock division. For more results
and photos from Nanaimo
Marine Festival, please
see page 7.
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Good Samaritan stabbed while trying to break up fight

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one suspect, still
searching for another.
By Tamara CunningHam
ThE NEwS BULLETiN

A 21-year-old Good Samaritan is recovering at Nanaimo
Regional General Hospital after
being stabbed twice in an early

morning brawl Saturday.
The Nanaimo RCMP say the
21-year-old was stabbed in the
back and abdomen after coming to the rescue of a 27-yearold man being beaten by two
young adult males Saturday.
The 27-year-old had refused to
hand over more than one cigarette, prompting the attack,
police say.
Both victims were hospitalized with stab wounds.

The 27-year-old was recently
released.
Police say they have
arrested one male, a 21-yearold Nanaimo man found near
where the attack happened
at Albert Street and Victoria
Crescent. They continue to
search for a second 21-yearold suspect, but say they do
not believe he is a danger to
the public.
The stabbings were report-

edly the result of what appears
to be an “instigated incident”
over cigarettes, said Const.
Kate Mooney with the Nanaimo
RCMP.
The suspect is not likely
“going around ... looking for
more trouble.”
Police say the 27-year-old victime was mouthy toward his
attackers and their reaction
was to fight him.
A witness to the fight flagged

down a Nanaimo RCMP constable who was patrolling the area
around 3:30 a.m.
The wounded Good Samaritan had to undergo surgery
and will remain in the hospital
for another week, according to
police.
They commend his actions
but say it’s never a good idea
for people to get involved in a
brawl.
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Police bag drugs, suspect
A search of a home by Nanaimo Mounties
bagged drugs, cash and two suspects last
week.
Police seized illicit street drugs, plus
$2,000 in cash in a home in the 600 block of
Pine Street. Investigators arrested a 40-yearold man who tried to flee the premises. A
23-year-old woman also at the home when
police arrived was taken into custody, but
was later released without charges.

A lot of people want to get
through to the City of Nanaimo
these days, and now there’s a plan
in place so that can happen.
Last Monday, council adopted
the City of Nanaimo Communication Plan. The document was presented by Philip Cooper, the city’s
communications manager. The
plan was prepared last November
and December and a draft was
publicly presented in March.
“It’s a work in progress but I
think it has a lot of benefit to it
and we’re hoping that the public
and the taxpayers will support the
concept and participate in it,” said
Mayor John Ruttan.
Cooper said the plan fulfils three
needs: it guides the flow of information, offers transparency, and
promotes communication over a
diversity of channels.
“It’s a document designed to
demonstrate what we’re doing,
how we’re doing it and create an
opportunity for conversations and

dialogue to occur,” Cooper told
council.
The plan is split into four sections: external communications,
internal communications, public
participation and relationship
building. Each of those goals is
accompanied by more specific
action items, 60 in all.
Seven community members
made presentations on the communications plan at last Monday’s
meeting.
“It’s a document and a document
translated into practice is a different deal. That’s the important
issue,” said Jeff Solomon. “Anybody can produce a document.
Acting on that document and making it work, is the work.”
Cooper said part of the plan is
to gauge the effectiveness of the
city’s communications.
“It’s extremely important to measure it because so much of what
we hear is sometimes on the negative side and there’s a ton of positive stuff,” he said.
Ruttan said he is hopeful that
the communication plan will be
beneficial both to the city and to
residents. “Particularly those that
may feel they’re most affected or
want to be heard, this is the perfect opportunity,” he said.
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Premier Christy Clark is pitching B.C.’s
carbon tax to her fellow premiers, bolstered
by a study that shows it is reducing fossil
fuel use compared to other provinces.
As premiers gathered last week in Niagaraon-the-Lake, Ont., for a Council of the Federation meeting, B.C. Environment Minister
Mary Polak said B.C. needs other provinces
and U.S. states to get on board before moving further on carbon pricing.
Introduced in 2008, B.C.’s carbon tax now
adds about seven cents to the cost of a litre
of gasoline, with comparable taxes on coal,
fuel oil, propane and other fuels. Legislation
requires that carbon tax revenue be offset
by reductions in business and personal
income tax, so it encourages fuel efficiency.
The B.C. Liberal Party campaigned in the
May election to freeze the rate for five years.
Polak said results so far show it is reducing per-capita fuel consumption without
depressing the overall economy, but the
province has gone as far as it can on its own.
The study by University of Ottawa law professor Stewart Elgie found that per-capita
use of fossil fuels has declined, while it has
increased in the rest of Canada.
“B.C.’s carbon tax shift is only four years
old, so it is too early to draw firm conclusions, but its greenhouse gas reductions
are trending in the same direction as those
seen in European countries with more than
15 years of data,” the study says. “Indeed
B.C.’s reductions to date appear to be even
greater, consistent with the fact that its carbon tax rate is now higher and more comprehensive than most European countries.”
NDP environment critic Spencer Chandra
Herbert agreed that the carbon tax is working, but said the five-year freeze indicates
the government has lost its leadership position.
The NDP is calling for the tax to be
extended to emissions from industrial processing such as cement making, which is
currently subject to tax only on natural gas
or other fuel used.
Polak said some industries are already at a
disadvantage because B.C. is going it alone.
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Discussion amongst Regional
District of Nanaimo board
members shows growing frustration for definitive action on
the Island rail corridor.
Speaking at last week’s regular board meeting, Qualicum
Beach director Dave Willie
highlighted his municipality’s letter to RDN CAO Paul
Thorkelson that called for discussions about the future use
of the corridor and to examine alternatives, other than
rail, for both the corridor and
the $15-million dedicated to it
from the provincial and federal governments.
“There are serious concerns
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“The corridor is a tremendous asset to the Island and
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Thorkelson stressed the district looks at the corridor as a
venue for many types of transportation.
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transportation options.”
Willie received strong support from his colleagues
around the table.
“The time is appropriate
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Bowser director Bill Veenhof
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Nanaimo director Jim Kipp
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“We are in a quagmire but
we have an August deadline
now,” he said. “Can we sit on
everything until then and then
make a decision as soon as
possible?”
Despite the discussion, the
board only agreed to receive
the letter from Qualicum and
took no further action.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Nanaimo News Bulletin 3

Nanaimo company helps kids get to class

I

FUNDRAISING WILL
buy boats for families
in Philippines.
By Chris Bush
The News BulleTiN

A Nanaimo-based company
that creates online presentations for yachts, business jets
and luxury hotels has thrown
its marketing savvy behind a
foundation that raises money
to build boats to help children in the Philippines get to
school.
Vincent Finetti, chief executive officer of Prestige Vision,
was on the final leg of a flight
home in December, idly checking messages and surfing the
net on his iPad, when he happened upon a video depicting
children in the Philippines who
faced an almost unbelievable
daily challenge just to get to
school and home again.
The video was shot in the
mangrove village of Layag
Layag, located on one of the
more than 7,000 islands that
make up the Philippines.
Homes, families, life in general
on many of the islands is surrounded by water and mangroves children have to wade
and swim through, for as much
as two hours each way, just
to get to their schools. By the
time they get to classes their
books and school supplies are
often soaked and water damaged.
Prestige Vision has offices
in Manila and Finetti saw an
opportunity to make a positive
impact for impoverished children in a country in which the
company operates.
“I started Prestige Vision a
few years ago and it’s all about
boats and yachts,” Finetti said.
“We have a team that operates
all around the world and we
help yachting and boating companies sell their boats.”
The YouTube video Finetti
happened upon was posted by
the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation, which is working with
13 communities across the
Philippines to provide yellow
school boats to get the kids to
classes. The foundation now
also gives support with school
supplies, dental and medical
missions, scholarships and

CHRIS BUSH/THe NewS BUlleTIN

Vincent Finetti of Prestige Vision is using his Nanaimo-based company’s
marketing savvy to drum up contributions to a program that buys small
boats for villagers in the Philippines to help children attend school.

programs that help people in
to deliver a good story and for
the region create livelihoods
that he decided needed to visit
for themselves. In the scheme
the remote mangrove village of
of things, it just wouldn’t take a Zamboanga where the foundalot of money to vastly improve
tion was started.
life for these people.
“I was about to go and every“I really got choked and I
body’s telling me, ‘Don’t go,
thought I need
Vincent,’ because
to do something
there is an
about it because
(advisory) from
I know all those
embassies warnpeople in the boating visitors not
ing industry and
to go in that area
I love the Philipbecause it very
pines, I love boats, i really got
dangerous and
I love swimming – I choked and i
they kidnap tourused to be a (comists,” Finetti said.
petitive) swimmer thought i need
Finetti is quick
– so all the ingredito point out that
ents were there for to do something only a few remote
this story to really about it.
areas of the Philtouch me,” Finetti
ippines are unsafe
said.
for travellers.
He contacted the foundaThe Philippine military protion and discovered that a
vided a volunteer armed escort
small boat could be provided
to ensure Vinetti’s safety and
for as little as $200. After
he went into the area, met the
helping to pay for two boats,
people and saw first hand how
Finetti decided he wanted to
they live.
make a far greater impact and
Homes in the region are often
decided to solicit help from
little more than huts built on
Prestige Vision’s clients around stilts over water. Everything
the world. But to get people
is surrounded by water and
behind the project he needed
mangroves. To get anywhere

“

people have to swim, wade or
travel by boat.
Yellow Boat of Hope boats are
painted, appropriately, school
bus yellow and come in various sizes, from small outrigger
canoes that can carry a couple
of children, to larger boats that
carry up to 25 children.
Every boat benefits an entire
community. After the children
are taken to school their parents use the boats for fishing
or working in seaweed farms
near the villages until the children have to be picked up from
their classes.
“It was very nice to see the
good things that can be done
with just $200,” Finetti said.
“Sometimes we don’t realize
what we can get for $200, but
they can get a boat to use for
six to eight years every day for
school and every day for work
and that’s huge.”
The boats are also built in the
villages, which provides spinoff economic benefits for the
whole community.
About 200 boats have been
purchased for villages so far
and Prestige Vision and its clients have helped sponsor 22 of
those.
“I know many more will
come,” Finetti said. “I know
that for so many years all
those kids and parents will
use those boats. It makes us
all really happy. We’re really
proud of this.”
To raise cash so far, Finetti
started what he calls the $1
campaign in which he mails
a letter with one U.S. dollar
stapled to it to clients around
the world detailing his experiences in the Philippines and
the benefits the Yellow Boat of
Hope Foundation provides to
the people living in the mangrove villages.
Finetti’s letter campaign has
generated interest and cash,
but he wants to share this
opportunity with Nanaimo’s
boating community to drum
up interest in sponsoring more
yellow boats.
“You put out the money and
you hope that more will come
back,” Finetti said. “It’s like
fishing with a lure.”
To learn more about the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation,
please visit www.yellowboat.
org.
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Nanaimo News Bulletin Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Police still searching
for second suspect

Document shredding raises
money for Crime Stoppers

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host their second confidential
documents shredding day.
The event happens Aug. 10, 11
a.m. to 4 p.m., when anyone can
drop off documents and have
them shredded for a $10 donation.
The shredding service is provided compliments of Island
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This is the second incident this month
where a knife has been wielded. In mid-July,
two men in their 20s assaulted and robbed
teenagers near Woodlands Secondary
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attacks, there is no trend.
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is asked to call Nanaimo RCMP at 250-7542345 or Crime Stoppers at 250-222-8477 or
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Nanaimo News Bulletin 5

Snowbirds take to skies above Nanaimo harbour for show

I

aErial ShoW part of
fundraiser for ChilD
Foundation.
By Chris Bush
The News BulleTiN

Canada’s famous aerial
demonstration team will perform over Nanaimo Harbour
to entertain the crowds and
raise awareness sky high for
the CHILD Foundation.
The RCAF Snowbirds 431
Air Demonstration Squadron,
known the world over for
its unique form of precision
formation flying, will fill the
skies over Nanaimo Harbour
Wednesday (July 31) at 6 p.m.
with the roar of jet engines
and music accompanying the
show.
The last time the demonstration team performed here
was in 2009.
Each year the Snowbirds fly
under a theme, which for the
2013 season is The Pursuit of
Excellence.
For 2013 the team is also
celebrating the 70th anniversary of its formation as a
bomber squadron plus their
50th anniversary of flying
the Canadian designed and
built Canadair CT-114 Tutor
jet aircraft, which has proven
its longevity and durability in

its trainer and demonstration
roles.
People can expect to see the
Snowbirds’ world class performance with a few changes,
said Capt. Thomas Edelson,
team spokesman.
“Each year we change the
order of the manoeuvres and
the formations,” Edelson said.
“We add some manoeuvres
and formations and some
get dropped as well, but it’s
a 35-minute show – timed to
music – in duration.
“It’s still nine planes in the
air and it’s still what people
come to expect from the
Snowbirds.”
Team members perform
with the squadron for two
years with about half the
team rotating through at a
time, ensuring a continual
blend of seasoned pilots
training new team members.
The squadron has 11 aircraft. Nine are flown in shows
with two spares kept in
reserve.
During the 35-minute performance, pilots and aircraft
will pull G-force loads ranging
from minus-two to plus-six.
At six Gs, or six times normal Earth gravity, a man who
weighs 80 kilograms will feel
as if he weighs 480 kg.
In other words, if the average person’s arm weighs nine
kg, at six Gs it will weigh 54

Safety zone in effect during show
The Nanaimo Port Authority will
start clearing a safety zone in
the harbour at 5 p.m., with a full
closure to all shipping and aircraft
in the harbour in effect by 5:30
p.m. All craft must have cleared
the safety zone before the show
can start.
The harbour will be re-opened

to traffic at 6:50 p.m. pending
confirmation that all aircraft have
cleared the area.
The safety area perimeter will
be marked with white buoys at its
corners and yellow buoys along its
sides. harbour Patrol vessels will
be positioned outside the safety
area.

kg. Snowbird pilots endure
those physical stresses, while
working their aircraft’s controls and maintaining mental
concentration, all without the
benefits of G-suits, normally
worn by jet fighter pilots, that
help maintain blood flow to
the lungs and brain to prevent pilots from blacking out
under high-G manoeuvres.
Snowbird pilots wear normal flight suits.
Edelson, although not a
pilot himself, has flown in the
backseat for several shows,
describes what appears to be
an aerial ballet to observers
on the ground as a fight in the
cockpit.
“It’s quite exhausting, that’s
for sure,” Edelson said. “It’s
a very intensive 35 minutes
with a lot of focus. A lot of
people don’t know actually how physical it is when
you’re in a very confined little
space. It’s very warm and

you’re fighting the G forces
a lot, so it’s not a walk in the
park.”
Edelson, speaking from Fort
Saint John where the team
had just arrived for a performance Thursday, said audiences are rarely aware of the
training, preparation for the
shows or even the logistics
of simply moving 11 aircraft
and 24 air and ground crew
around Canada and the U.S.
The Snowbirds also have
one support truck that follows the squadron, otherwise
the team has to travel light.
“It’s essentially like going
camping in a [Mazda] Miata
all summer,” Edelson said.
The Snowbirds will fly for
Nanaimo Wednesday (July
31) at 6 p.m., but they will
arrive at Nanaimo Airport on
a special mission today (July
30) where they’ll fly an aerial
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CHILD Foundation representatives for a private barbecue
at the Nanaimo Flying Club.
The team will base their
aircraft at Nanaimo Airport
overnight prior to performing
Wednesday.
The Snowbirds started promoting for the CHILD Foundation in 2002.
The foundation raises
money to find a cure for children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease.
“Each year we participate
with one of our primary charities and do a show for the
public, but there are aspects
of that show where it’s a private social function for some
of the kids and families who
are working through life with
various intestinal and liver
problems,” Edelson said. “We
just basically bring visibility
to their organization.”
The team is encouraging
the public to come to the
waterfront, watch the show
and buy Snowbirds T-shirts
and WestJet raffle tickets,
proceeds from which support
the CHILD Foundation.
For more information on the
Canadian aerial demonstration team, please visit www.
forces.gc.ca/en/snowbirds/
index.page.
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Brandon Leigh hauls his
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finish of the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race.
Leigh is this year’s
champion, finishing the
course in one hour, 30
minutes, 42 seconds.
GReG SAKAKI
THe NewS BUlleTIN

Tubbers tossed in Great Race
High wind and rough seas brought out toughness in competitors
By GreG Sakaki
The News BulleTiN

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TOP: One of the performers with Cirque Jeunesse En Equilibre gets a little help
from young audience members to get on his feet during the circus troupe’s
performance in Diana Krall Plaza Friday. ABOVE: Jerry Hong, right, throws up his
hands in apparent defeat and disgust at the sight of Celena Olson, who launches
a devastating frontal assault on her melon, splattering nearby contestants and
cameras, during the adult category of the Downtown Nanaimo Business Improvement Association’s watermelon eating contest.

he tubs got tossed
around this year,
but tubbers showed
toughness and finished the Great International
World Championship Bathtub
Race.
Nanaimo’s Brandon Leigh
won this year’s event, as he
and his super-modified tub
made it to Departure Bay
beach in one hour, 30 minutes, 42 seconds. Leigh is a
second-generation tubber
and first-time champion.
“I rode the waves, I was on
top of them, I wasn’t slugging
it out like everybody else,
and it really worked to my
advantage,” said Leigh.
He had a huge lead for the
second half of the race and
he knew it, so he just needed
to maintain focus. He ended
up finishing more than 15
minutes ahead of the rest of
the field.
“It’s more of an endurance
race than a speed race,”
Leigh said. “So you’ve got to
keep your wits about you the
whole time because you can
catch an edge and you can
submarine and it’s all over in
seconds.”
Runner-up this year was
Shawn Lamoureux. The former champ said conditions
were rough this year, with

He said the seas were rough
for the duration of the race.
“It seemed to never let up
anywhere, even coming in
here [to Departure Bay],” he
said.
The tubbers had been
advised of the forecast in
their morning meeting, said
Katharine Lamoureux, first
lady to finish the race.
“They told us to expect
some serious wind and
waves,” she said. “I was prepared for it but it was still
intense no matter how much
you know what it’s going to
be like out there.”
There were some close
calls, said the three-time finisher and first-time winner.
“I think my escort boat
thought I was going down
at least 10 times,” Katharine
Lamoureux said. “I wasn’t so
sure a few times, too.”
Brad Davis won the stock
class and was third overall
and Kevin Saunders won the
modified division. Darren
Logan won Oldest Tubber
to Finish and also the Last
Place Survivor award. Mike
McKillican won the Silver
Plunger Award as first tubber
to sink. Madison Crawford
won for Best Sportsmanship.
Jaime Garcia won Heaviest
Tubber to Finish and Trevor
Short was Youngest Tubber
to Finish.

four- and five-foot waves
heading toward the Winchelsea Islands.
“I try not to hit the big
waves head on, but sometimes when you launch over
400-500 of them, you’re going
to hit a couple of them head
on,” he said. “I definitely got
my bell rung a couple times.”
The defending champ, Clint
Heine, was side by side with
Leigh at around Neck Point,
but took a spill there.
“My hand came off on a
wave and [the tub] got too
high in the front, came down
and got water in the back
and got sloshed by another
wave and it killed the motor,”
Heine said.
He was dumped into the
drink, and needed his escort
boat to help him get his tub
back afloat.

People in B.C. buy, sell, grow and consume marijuana mostly without fear of
serious consequences from the law.
Elections B.C. has given approval in
principle to Dana Larsen’s initiative petition to amend the Police Act. More specifically, Larsen wants to decriminalize
marijuana possession – a reminder that
pot remains illegal.
Any move to shake up drugs laws in
this country is largely seen as a good
thing. But pot smokers shouldn’t have a
victory toke yet – it’s not clear this initiative will even get off the ground, and, if
it does, will the province give it the time
of day? Similar to the ultimately successful drive to oust the HST, Larsen and his
supporters need to collect signatures of
at least 10 per cent of elected voters in
each of the 85 ridings.
And if they do manage that, then it will
be forwarded to a committee which will
either send a draft bill to the Legislature
for debate or to the Chief Electoral
Officer to conduct a referendum.
The gross mishandling of the HST by
the Liberals made it easy to whip up
voter anger. Many people in B.C. may
support laxer laws around possessing
marijuana, but the issue is unlikely to
inflame the same passions as a government perceived as dishonest and shifting
tax burdens from business to citizens.
The drive for a possible marijuana referendum could help to get voting-adverse
young adults more engaged in the political life of B.C.
If a change to marijuana possession
law were to succeed anywhere in Canada,
it should be B.C. But even if Larsen and
his allies win, the victory will be non-binding and symbolic – the B.C. Liberals don’t
have to support the vote.
B.C. may have a permissive pot culture, but this isn’t the U.S., where, for
better or worse, voter propositions are
binding. And unlike Canadian provinces,
states like Washington and Colorado will
defy their federal government based on
the will of the people.

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Absurd to assign worth to nature
More than 13 per cent of Candead. That’s because before life
ada’s gross domestic product
arose, the atmosphere was toxic
depends on healthy ecosystems, for animals like us – rich in CO2,
according to Environment Canammonia, sulphur and water,
ada briefing notes obtained by
but devoid of oxygen.
Postmedia News.
Oxygen is a highly reactive
By contrast, the Harper govelement that is quickly used
ernment’s pet economic project, up when elements like sulphur
the Alberta oil sands, represents and iron oxidize. Only after life
a mere two per cent. But is
evolved a way to exploit the
13 per cent a reasonable estisun’s energy through photomate of the “value”
synthesis was carbon
of nature? With the
dioxide removed and
SCIENCE
current perspective
oxygen released as a
MATTERS
that elevates the
byproduct.
David Suzuki
economy above all
However, since the
with Ian Hanington
else, it’s important to
Industrial Revolution,
find ways to include
we’ve been burning
nature’s value in our
fossil fuels, liberating
calculations so it
more carbon dioxide
doesn’t get ignored
than life can absorb.
in decision-making.
It’s accumulating
At the same time, it
in the atmosphere
seems absurd to try
and oceans, and
to assign worth to
that’s driving climate
something so vital we can’t surchange.
vive without it.
Back to our experiment. We
Most of the world’s people are
knew about the toxic atmonow urban dwellers and spend
sphere before we started out
increasingly less time outdoors.
and so we packed helmets and
As such, we assume we can crecompressed air tanks, which we
ate our habitat. As long as we
don before opening the hatch.
have parks to play in, we don’t
We exit and wander about for
think much about nature. So,
an hour or two before becoming
let’s consider a thought exerthirsty.
cise.
There’s water, but what could
Scientists invent a time
we trust to drink? Life is part of
machine to take us back four bil- the hydrologic cycle that circulion years before life appeared.
lates water around the world in
We strap ourselves in, press
rivers, lakes, oceans and air.
buttons and are transported to
We knew that, too, and so we
a time when the planet was ster- have water bottles attached to
ile, devoid of life. We open the
our helmets, connected by straw
hatch and go out. And, we’re all
to our mouths. After many more

hours, we become hungry. But
before there was life on Earth
there was no food for animals
like us because everything we
eat was once alive. We consume
the carcasses of animals and
plants and absorb their molecules to form every part of our
bodies.
We also anticipated that and
brought food. In fact, I expected
to stay a while and brought
seeds to grow greens. But where
could I plant them? There would
be dust, sand, clay and gravel,
but no soil because it’s formed
by the accumulation of molecules from the remains of plants
and animals.
Finally, the sun sets and
although it’s warm because of
greenhouse gases, we decide to
build a fire.
Where could we find fuel to
burn? Wood, peat, dung, coal,
oil and gas all store the sun’s
energy as photosynthetic products that we burn to liberate
fire. Again, in anticipation we
brought wood, kindling and
paper and set them up for a
fire. But fire requires oxygen, so
nothing happens when we strike
the match.
The point of this exercise is to
illustrate that the very foundations of our lives – air, water,
photosynthesis, soil and food –
are made possible by the web of
life that evolved on a once-sterile planet. Without nature, we
would not be here. How do we
put an economic value on that?
www.davidsuzuki.org.

‘As long as we have parks to play in, we don’t think much about nature.’

LETTERS

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Either gender can lead, innovate
To the Editor,

Re: Post-secondary
is unbalanced, Letters, July 11.
When Mr. Southward expressed
disappointment at a
celebration of women
outnumbering men in
universities, it’s quite
apparent that he sees
the high female rate
as posing a threat to
men’s status as “leaders and innovators of
the future” when he
suggests we “balance
the deficit.”
In light of the high
number of university
students/grads deep
in tuition-induced
debt without a subsequently relevant
job to follow, he worries more about the
male’s reputation in
this phantom brain
drain. Trade skills are
equally as vital and
honourable a position as a universityeducated job. As for
the “phantom oncoming trade shortage,”
I hear, see and read
more evidence of the
contrary. Plumbers,
construction workers, electricians,
welders, etc. are not
“short-term pros-

pects of resource
exploitation.”
Perhaps men “have
always been … the
leaders and innovators,” but doesn’t
insisting that they
hold this title well
into the future smack
of sexist values right
there? Have women
not made strides as
leaders and innovators in a man’s
world? Haven’t their
opportunities been
limited because of
their gender? (Not for
a lack of volunteers.)
Don’t they deserve
a chance at it, even
though the majority
of them get paid less
to do the same job,
and just as efficiently
as men? (Think of the
savings that governments and corporations would gain.)
I am not a big
women’s lib advocate, but let’s keep
the ego out of this
and keep the population ratio genderless,
and let every man
and woman decide
for themselves what
direction they want
to take in life.

Suzanne Lehmer
Nanaimo

After years of continual tax
increase – and wasteful spending
by the city bureaucracy and varied
councils – the taxpayers of Nanaimo
are looking for improvements, and
with the new change in hierarchy,
promises of little change.
Each city manager successor gets
the job by promotion from within.
For years, council and bureaucrats
have had free run of taxpayer dollars
and have made many inane choices.
Not to even mention the Colliery
Dams, the lack of concern when the
Port Authority was prepared to give
away the Boat Basin for 30 years,
and the small matter of a liquor
bureaucrat’s decision to crack down
on beer league hockey tournaments.
Other communities have estab-

Consolidation of schools
won’t benefit all students
To the Editor,

File photo

Women outnumbering men at post-secondary institutions shouldn’t be viewed
as any kind of threat, argues letter writer.

Core review might be a good idea after all
lished core reviews with dramatic
improvement to the taxpayer – a
very large reduction in duplication
of city staff and no tax increases.
When a motion was made to order
a core review for Nanaimo, this current council summarily dismissed
the motion.
Our employees owe the taxpayer
more consideration.

D. F. Connors
via e-mail

School district priorities
seem to be misplaced
To the Editor,

Re: Due process needed in bullying
cases, Letters, July 16.
The school district spent valuable
time and resources concluding that

“While there had been incidents of
conflict between children this was
not a situation where bullying took
place.”
Says who? Adults? Cops? Bullying
has taken place and will continue to
take place in every public school.
Perhaps this parent was just trying
to point out a flaw in the system and
felt that the only place to have these
concerns heard on neutral ground
was via the newspaper.
If the energy spent conducting this
bullying investigation was focused
on giving the kids more opportunities in academic and artistic areas
this would go a long way in preventing incidents of conflict between
children.

Valentina Cardinalli
via e-mail

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Re: Opposition mounts to coming closures
of Cedar schools, July 18th
Jamie Brennan says consolidating secondary students will allow students access
to better support services, more extra-curricular opportunities and increased course
selections.
My daughter was consolidated in John
Barsby School in 1998. Her brothers
attended Cedar Community Secondary
School from 2000-10. My sons had access
to better support services, more extra-curricular opportunities and increased course
selections than their sister ever did. Getting her into Barsby for basketball practice
and games was a nightmare. On the other
hand when her brothers were involved in
extra-curricular opportunities at Cedar, if
my husband and I were unavailable to pick
them up they walked home with no serious
consequences.
As to support services, my learning
disabled son had tremendous support at
Cedar which did not happen at Barsby for
my daughter’s peers who were learning
disabled. Course selections were similar
for both schools and my boys got better support for the more difficult courses
they chose to take like Calculus 12. My
daughter was a bright but quiet student
who received not a single bursary or
scholarship from the district although she
qualified for scholarships at university. Her
brothers both received district scholarships, some of which came from local businesses in Cedar which were acquired by
school staff visiting local businesses and
convincing them to support our grads.
I have no children in the school district
now but I’m still passionate about the best
education for our children. Many parents
moved to Cedar in the last decade because
there was a high school for their children.
Please don’t destroy our community and
our children’s future so the school board
can “move forward.”

Donna Sweeney
Cedar

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An open letter to all Canadians
Bell Canada is taking the unusual step of writing to all Canadians today. As the nation’s longest-serving telecommunications company,
established shortly after Confederation in 1880, we would like to ensure Canadians clearly understand a critical situation impacting
their world-leading wireless industry.
Verizon Communications, a $120-billion US telecommunications giant with 100 million wireless customers, is considering entering the
Canadian market. A company of this scale certainly doesn’t need handouts from Canadians or special regulatory advantages over
Canadian companies. But that is exactly what they get in the new federal wireless regulations.
Bell welcomes any competitor, but they should compete on a level playing field. Fair competition is something Canadians demand
and something Bell expects too after 133 years of investment in delivering world-class communications services to Canadians.

Unintended advantages for American giants: How we got here
The federal government has recently taken an activist role in regulating Canada’s wireless industry. That includes giving various benefits
to small startup wireless competitors. With Ottawa’s help, the new companies have become part of the vigorously competitive Canadian
wireless marketplace.
But the government inadvertently left holes in the wireless rules that would give big US corporations the same extraordinary advantages
as the small startups. And all Canadians are on the hook to pay.
Verizon has said it’s looking at taking advantage of this unique opportunity. We do not believe a US company 4x the size of Canada’s entire
wireless industry combined requires special help from Canada. It’s profoundly unfair to all Canadians, and Ottawa needs to close the loopholes.

3 loopholes in the rules
Under federal regulations originally designed for startup competitors, Verizon would actually get these benefits…
1. Verizon would be able to buy twice as much of Canada’s airwaves as Canadian companies like Bell can in an upcoming auction
of wireless spectrum – the airwaves that carry your calls and data.
These airwaves are a public resource, and access to them is critical to providing you with world-leading wireless services. When
Ottawa auctions off Canada’s airwaves for use by telecommunications companies, it gets significant revenues. These are public funds.
It is inappropriate for our own government to essentially reserve a public resource for a company like Verizon to the detriment of
Canadian companies. In doing so, the government will also reduce federal auction revenue significantly – by potentially hundreds
of millions of dollars. A loophole that gives US companies access to twice as much of our airwaves and at a lower cost is an unfair
advantage, paid for by Canadians.
2. They get to piggyback on the networks of Canadian carriers wherever they don’t want to invest and build their own.
Under the rules, Verizon would have the right to offer wireless service using the advanced networks funded by Canadian companies
and built by Canadian workers. Industry experts say a Verizon wouldn’t need to build its own network throughout Canada, invest in
Canada’s rural communities, or support Canadian jobs like Canadian wireless companies do. Instead, they would concentrate on a
few big urban centres, forcing Canadian carriers to do the same while potentially cutting jobs and slashing costs in order to compete.
3. Verizon can acquire smaller Canadian competitors – but Bell and other Canadian wireless companies can’t even try.
American players like Verizon can buy up new Canadian wireless companies like Wind Mobile and Mobilicity at cut-rate prices – including
their existing spectrum holdings previously subsidized by Canadian taxpayers. Yet Canadian carriers like Bell are restricted from
competing to acquire these Canadian startups, even if the new companies want it to happen. That means Verizon gets them for
below-market value.
What did Ottawa get from the United States in return for this unprecedented access to Canada? Nothing. No reciprocity in the US for Canadian
companies. In fact, can you even imagine Canadian wireless companies getting preferred access to New York, Los Angeles or Chicago?

3 straightforward ways to close the loopholes
The Bell team is ready to compete with anyone for your business on a level playing field. But big US companies taking advantage
of rules designed to help Canadian startups is just not on the level.
To get wireless policy back on track, we propose that…
1. Canadian wireless carriers should be able to bid for the same amount of Canada’s airwaves as Americans can.
2. US operators entering Canada should roll out wireless service across the country, just as Canadian companies have.
3. If a small Canadian wireless company seeks a buyer, Canadian carriers should be allowed to bid, just as the Americans can.
US giants don’t need special help from the Canadian government, and Canadians shouldn’t have to pay their way into the country.
Instead, let’s give Canada’s own communications companies a fair chance to compete with them.
Sincerely,

George Cope, President and CEO, Bell Canada and BCE

P.S. To learn more about this situation, please visit Bell.ca/PlayFair

We’re not
the only ones
concerned
“Why would Ottawa create a policy environment that favours a U.S. telecom giant
and deliberately trashes the shareholders of the major Canadian wireless players?”
Terence Corcoran, Financial Post,
June 27, 2013

“But there is no basis for the Commission to give certain large companies a
regulatory hand-out… so they can acquire spectrum… at a substantial discount
over the price that would otherwise be received.”
Verizon, Regulatory filing to the FCC on U.S. Incentive Auctions,
March 12, 2013

“In fact a report published last week commissioned by the CRTC suggested
a similar conclusion (that wireless prices have come down meaningfully since
2008) – so we’re not entirely sure where Industry Canada is getting its data
about the market not being competitive. Then again, the government wouldn’t
let a little data get in the way of a good lever for getting votes, and that’s
clearly what is going on here.”
Bob Bek, CIBC World Markets,
July 12, 2013

“The perception that Canadian prices are high relative to other jurisdictions
has been seized upon by the government as an invitation to intervene and
deliver lower prices. But the perception is false and the invitation is illogical.”
Dr. Jeffrey Church and Andrew Wilkins of the University of Calgary,
The Globe and Mail,
July 8, 2013

“…the federal government’s anything-goes market interventions to support
a fourth carrier have so gerrymandered the rules to favour Verizon sweeping
in that any investor seriously interested in buying shares in Canadian telecom
companies should be spooked.”
Sean Silcoff, The Globe and Mail,
June 27, 2013

“This will mean significant layoffs which could easily trump the hiring to be done
by Verizon, which besides a needed presence in retail outlets, should be able to
initially handle a lot of functions (marketing, billing) from the United States.”
Adam Shine, National Bank Financial,
June 26, 2013

“Unlike the national incumbents in Canada, we wonder if Verizon has a strategy
for wireless broadband in rural markets, a key political consideration for the
current Conservative Government.”
Dvai Ghose, Canaccord Genuity,
July 2, 2013

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A holiday in 50 K
Becoming a tourist in your hometown can make summer
feel like an adventure – without ever leaving the city
The site features the Nanaimo Waterfront Walking Tour, Nanaimo Downtown
Walking Tour, North Nanaimo Driving
f you’re aghast at gas prices, fumTour, South Nanaimo Driving Tour
ing over ferry lineups or you lost
(which is also happens to be a great
the battle with your coworkers who
cycling route), the Ladysmith Chegobbled up the whole summer on
mainus Driving Tour, Gabriola Driving
the office holiday calendar, a staycation and Bicycling Tour and the Oceanside
might not be a bad alternative.
Route Driving tour.
The trouble is knowing where to go
There’s more good news. Many of the
to still feel like you did something with
stops Stanley recommends are free, so
your summer – even if you didn’t get a
staycationers can plan a cheap day’s
radical change of scenery and culture.
outing.
The good news is in Nanaimo you
“When I pick which places to list on
don’t have to go far to find suggestions
these tours I don’t have any direct
to put together a pretty awesome stayfinancial or personal interest in any of
cation. One of the best places to find
the places covered,” Stanley said. “I
them is online at GoNachoose them according
naimo.com where retired
to what is the best value
travel guidebook writer
or the most interestDavid Stanley has posted
ing for someone going
the Nanaimo 50-Kilometre
out and seeing them…
Holiday featuring seven
I’m not trying to make
walking, driving and
money off it, so that’s
cycling tours all within a
the way I do it.”
I choose them
50-km radius of Nanaimo.
One of his suggestions
according to
In fact, Stanley has been
on the Oceanside Route
posting these since 2008,
Tour is the Mornwhat is the best Driving
but a lot of people still
ingstar Farm, a great
don’t know about them.
value or the most stop for kids with free
Stanley knows his busiadmission.
interesting.
ness. His writing career
“That’s a real great
spanned 34 years, he
attraction for families,”
has travelled to 185 of the 193 United
Stanley said. “It’s free of charge and
Nations member countries and how
I give that a real high rating in my
about this for a reference: Stanley is the Oceanside Route Tour.”
guy who wrote the first three editions
South of Nanaimo, he recommends
of Eastern Europe on a Shoestring and
watching bungy jumping at WildPlay
the first two editions of Lonely Planet
Nanaimo for some free entertainment.
Cuba for the Lonely Planet TV series.
Even if people go to watch for free,
GoNanaimo.com is something Stanley Stanley said, some will end up want to
does for fun and subsidizes the site and try it and paying for a jump.
content out of his own pocket.
“I took my sister there two years
“I drive around and do those tours –
ago and we hadn’t intended for her to
there are seven tours there – and I do
bungy jump, but she ended up jumpthem once a year,” Stanley said.
ing,” Stanley said.
Stanley updates the tours annually
Each tour listed on the website can be
– they were just updated in June – to
pulled up as a printable version with a
make sure all the information is curGoogle map, that you can take along on
rent.
your tour.
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Nanaimo’s Harbourfront Walkway is a magnet for tourists, but locals can find just as much
unique and interesting to do and see. Local resident and former travel writer, David Stanley,
compiled seven unique tours of the mid-Island area – all within 50 kilometres of Nanaimo.

Surprisingly, this little website gold
mine of local attractions isn’t all that
well known simply because it’s not
advertised and promoted other than
on the Internet. So if you’re looking for
a shortcut to some nearby getaways
this summer, please visit the Nanaimo
50-Kilometre Holiday website at gonanaimo.com/tours.
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fuels increases, so does longdistance transportation in Canada.

Following the rail
disaster in LacMégantic, Que., with
the destruction of
the town centre,
countless injuries
and lost livelihoods
and lives, plus the

near disaster of fuelcontaining rail cars
saved from a flooddamaged bridge in
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So, too, oil spills
from pipelines are
increasing. Given
that our dependence
on (increasingly
caustic and dangerous) fossil fuels continues to grow, disasters are only more
likely to occur.
Our dependence on
fossil fuels is increasingly costly in other
ways. Rapidly rising

insurance claims
from climate events
impact our insurance
rates. Government
disaster aid keeps on
rising. We pick up the
tab.
That’s not all.
When the cost to
the environment
and lost productivity are added to the
above toll it becomes
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popular South Korean
artist are the featured
exhibit at Nanaimo Arts
Council gallery in August.
Gyoung-il Ko’s work will be
on display at the gallery in
Nanaimo North Town Centre
from Aug. 1-22. An opening
reception is planned for Aug. 8.
Gyoung-il Ko is an associate
professor in the department of
cartoon and digital contents
at Sangmyung University in
Seoul, South Korea.
He teaches drawing, painting and caricature animation
there. He also contributes
political caricature cartoons to
the newspaper and publishing
company Han-Kyoreh, one of
most liberal daily newspapers
in South Korea, and Dong-A, a
weekly magazine.
Ko was born in 1968 in South
Korea. In 1993 he graduated
from Chungju teachers college
with a teaching certificate for
fine arts. At that time, however,
South Korea had been ruled by
dictatorial powers which created serious political tensions.
Instead of teaching, Ko began
publishing political cartoons
that were a stinging satire on
the government and its policies.
Having become famous for
cartoons that mercilessly lampooned the dictator of the day,
Ko found his work more and
more suppressed by the government.
In order to escape from
the dictatorial government’s
attempt to gag him, Ko went
to Japan and attended Kyoto
Seika graduate school, studying fine arts, science and the
caricature process for a master’s degree in 1998.
Ko returned to South Korea
and got a part-time lecturing
position in a Korean universities. He also continuously
released his works as a cartoonist.
In 2000, Ko became a full-time
lecturer in the department of
cartoon at Kyoto Seika Univer-

The work of South Korean Artist Gyoung-il
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Gallery in August. Ko has received numerous
awards for his political caricature cartoons.
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sity in Kyoto, Japan.
Ko finally started to work in
the Department of Cartoon at
Sangmyung University as an
assistant professor in 2001.

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Ko from Kyoto international
Cartoon Forum because of
significant contributions of
facilitating the international
exchange of cartoons in Korea,
Japan and China. Currently Ko
is publishing a 20-piece series
in the Hankyoreh newspaper
in Seoul.
South Korea has had rapid
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hardship and overcoming the
pain of living with the 21st
century.
Korea is seemingly wearing the clothes of a modern
democracy, but underneath
still suffers from the remnants
of colonialism, dictatorships
and the Japanese Occupation.
The gallery is open Monday,
Tuesday and Saturday from
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday
to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 9
p.m.; and Sundays and holidays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information about
the exhibit please visit www.
nanaimoartscouncil.ca.

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MUSIC FROM THE BIG
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Hospice house.

JESSICA STUART FEW
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ILLTONE plays the Cambie Aug. 17. Doors 9
p.m. Admission $5.

CHEVY RAY and the Fins
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Nanaimo Marine Festival downtown entertainment Friday.

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This month The
Tea Salon is going to
help people explore
their creativity.
Nanaimo’s Carla
Stein, the guest for
the August meeting,
is a trained counselor as well as an
artist and enjoys
helping others connect to their best
selves.
Stein will be doing
a guided visualization followed by
time spent creating
a postcard from
your creative self
to your everyday
self. In other words,
discovering where

your creative self
lives.
“New perspectives nourish new
visions,” said Stein,
in a press release.
People are invited
to come have tea,
make new friends
and learn to
embrace their inner
creativity.
Attendees are
encouraged to bring
books to exchange
with other participants.
Nicolle Nattrass
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with a little beauty
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The event is
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Painted Turtle
Guest House’s Great

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located at 121 Bastion St.

Whether you’re
spending your summer vacation relaxing
in your backyard or
adventuring into the
wilderness, the B.C.
SPCA wants to show
off your best wildlife
pictures.
Amateur photographers can enter the
fifth annual WildlifeIn-Focus Photography
Contest by submitting
digital photos until
Sept. 30. The contest
is a fundraiser supporting the society’s
Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre on
southern Vancouver
Island, where more
than 2,500 orphaned
and injured wild animals are cared for
every year.
“With the nation’s
greatest diversity of
wildlife in our own
province, we are
excited to help backyard and amateur
photographers showcase these amazing
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local newspapers
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authored by journalist Nicholas Read.
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greenspaces, roadsides, beaches and
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4Cats Art Studio in Lantzville hosts workshops this summer to help a family raise
money to buy equipment at Nanaimo Regional
General Hospital.
Jesse Shanahan was born prematurely and
spent nine weeks in the neonatal intensive
care unit at the hospital. She died May 31 at
just six weeks old.
In honour of Jesse’s memory, her parents
Sheri and Mike, and big sister Marlee, are
fundraising to buy a central monitor. The
Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation
agreed to match any donations the family can
raise.
On Aug. 16-17, fundraising workshops
include splatter painting, Van Gogh-inspired
flowers, and Paul Klee-inspired cats.
4Cats Arts Studio Nanaimo is located at
1-7221 Lantzville Rd.
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please visit www.4cats.com/nanaimo or call
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The V.I. Raiders won
their first game, and they
intend to only get better.
Nanaimo’s Canadian
Junior Football League
team started the 2013
season with a 35-10 win
over the Westshore Rebels on Saturday night in
Victoria.
The game was disjointed, with tons of penalties and a few too many
plays going awry.
“You could sure tell
on the field today, I
think both teams would
agree, it felt like a preseason game and we’ve
got a lot of work to do,”
said Matthew (Snoop)
Blokker, Raiders coach.
The turning point came
late in the third quarter
with the score 18-10 for
Nanaimo. After the Rebels
came up with their third
interception of the game,
Raiders linebacker Dylan
Chapdelaine intercepted
the ball back, leading to
a 16-yard touchdown run
from V.I. quarterback Jahmari Bennett.
“I liked the way we
played in the second
half,” Blokker said. “I
thought we got our spirit
a little bit more and we
got a little more physical
and kind of took over.”
Taylor Flavel scored the
first touchdown of the
season on a one-yard run

GREG SAKAKI/THE NEWS BULLETIN

V.I. Raiders defensive back Fabian Ross, middle, tackles a Westshore Rebels opponent as linebacker Cole Samson also
goes to the football during Saturday’s Canadian Junior Football League game in Victoria.

five minutes after kickoff. Jordan Kuziek got his
team the ball back right
away with a fumble recovery, and one play later
Bennett found Dustin
Rodriguez for a 20-yard
TD reception.
The second quarter was
all Rebels, as they scored
a one-yard rushing touchdown and hit a 34-yard

field goal.
After the Raiders
regained control in the
third, they kept coming
in the fourth. Ash Gayat’s
fumble recovery led to
a 22-yard field goal from
Ryan Jones, then V.I.
quarterback Jaeden Marwick eluded Westshore’s
entire defence and dove
into the endzone for a

54-yard TD run.
Raiders defensive end
Quinton Bowles, who
had a sack, said players decided at halftime
that they needed to start
being the bullies.
“Once we were in the
locker room we realized
that we needed to get our
intensity a lot higher,” he
said.

Nigel Henry, Raiders
linebacker, said his team
realized it played “stupid”
in the first half and tried
to put that in the past.
“We just had to get our
energy up and make sure
that we didn’t get down
on ourselves for the mistakes that we made,” he
said.
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Palladian wins championship
as fastball series goes distance
The fastball finalists this
season were about as evenly
matched as it gets, but one team
managed to prevail.
Palladian Developments
defeated the Wheatsheaf Fastball
Club 5-4 in the rubber match of a
best-of-three series Thursday at
May Richards Bennett Pioneer
Park to win the Nanaimo Senior
Men’s Fastball League championship.
Palladian won Game 1 by a 3-2
score and Wheatsheaf won the
next game 3-0, setting up the
finale. The game appropriately
came down to the seventh and

last inning, when Reid Swanson
hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the inning to score Trevor
MacIntyre.
Mike Peters was the winning
pitcher in Game 3 after throwing the whole series for Palladian. Lee Lucas pitched all three
games for Wheatsheaf.
Both teams finished the regular season with identical 13-3
records.
Lucas was named Most Valuable Player in the NSMFL this
season and Peters was chosen
Top Pitcher.
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Wheatsheaf baserunner Todd Helton is tagged out at home plate by Palladian
catcher Trevor MacIntyre during Wednesday’s game at Pioneer Park.

Nanaimo District
Lacrosse Association
squads wrapped up
solid seasons with
fine performances at
provincials.
The Nanaimo
Timbermen peewee
A2 team had the best
result, winning provincial
gold with a 4-2 win
over the Maple Ridge
Burrards earlier this
month in Kamloops.
Goal scorers in
the final were Fisher
Zawasky, Ethan Jones,
Jake McGonigle with the
winner and Josh Zary
with an empty netter.
Colby Bowman picked
up the win in net.
McGonigle was
the final game MVP
and Zary made the
tournament all-star
team. Winning game
MVP honours leading
up to the final were
Bowman, Evan Soucy,
Andrew Mjoen and Zary.
The Timbermen midget
C team won silver this
past weekend at Port
Coquitlam and the
bantam A2 T-men were
the most sportsmanlike
team at provincials
in Delta in mid-July.
Bantam A2 coach Steve
Bishop was the Fair Play
Coach award winner at
that tourney.

Stilwell races
to new record
Nanoose Bay’s
Michelle Stilwell set
a world record in the
women’s wheelchair
T52 classification
800-metres Thursday
at the International
Paralympic Committee
world championships in
Lyon, France.
She won the race
in two minutes 14.79
seconds, eclipsing the
previous world record of
2:16.71 set in 2005 by
Canadian Lisa Franks.
Stilwell – a multiple
medal winner at the
2004 and 2008
Paralympics and multiple
world record holder –
won a gold medal in the
200m and a silver in
the 100m race at the
Paralympic Games in
London last summer.

A brief playoff run came to a
frustrating finish for the Acme
Timbermen.
The city’s senior B lacrosse
team lost a bizarre 8-7 overtime game to the Tri-City
Bandits on Sunday night at
Frank Crane Arena to drop a
best-of-five series three games
to none. The loss eliminates
Nanaimo from the West Coast
Senior Lacrosse Association
playoffs.
The T-men feel as though
they deserved a different outcome in Game 3. They led 6-3
going into the third period,
but the Bandits tied the game

when they scored on a penalty
shot with nine seconds left.
Then in overtime, the senior
B T-men managed to tie things
7-7 but then scored on their
own net with a minute left.
“Tonight was just a freakish
night,” said Mike Maughan,
the team’s coach. “One of the
weirdest games I’ve seen in my
35 years of lacrosse.”
The Acme Painting Timbermen were rolling along until
they felt some of the calls
went against them, and they
couldn’t keep their cool.
Shawn Swanson, T-men general manager, said it can be
difficult to keep focus in that
sort of situation.
“It’s really tough,” he said.
“It’s something that good
teams do well and average
teams don’t do well and we’re
in between … So sometimes
that can be our downfall.”
In the final minute the T-men

repeatedly threw the ball
away to the other team. Those
missed chances to close out
the game caught up to them
when they sent out too many
men on the floor with nine seconds left in regulation. It was
a close call, but the rules call
for a penalty shot in that situation, and the Bandits made
good on the opportunity.
“They’re a strong team and
they’re a tough team to beat
– they showed that all year…”
said Maughan. “But we know
how strong a team we have
and how capable we are so it’s
just really frustrating for it to
end this quickly.”
LACROSSE TALK … Nick
Patterson made 46 saves in
defeat. Ryan Forslund, Jon
Diplock and Blair Pinnock
each had two-goal games and
Ryan Dietterle was Nanaimo’s
other scorer.
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GRID BITS … Jahmari Bennett finished
8-of-19 passing for
96 yards, one touchdown throw and
three picks. Ashton
Galloway had three
catches for 34 yards
and Taylor Flavel led
the run game with 11
carries for 82 yards.
The Raiders as a team
gained 257 yards on

the ground. Defensively, Henry made
seven tackles and
Ariel Fabbro had four
… The Raiders play
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Saturday (Aug. 3) at
7 p.m. at Kelowna’s
Apple Bowl stadium
… In other Week 1
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B.C. Football Conference, the Sun
defeated the Chilliwack Huskers 65-10 in
the Okanagan and the
Langley Rams shut
out the Kamloops
Broncos 51-0 in the
Fraser Valley.
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Senior A
Timbermen
lose finale
The Nanaimo Timbermen took the floor
for the last time this
lacrosse season, and
couldn’t manage one
final win.
The Coastal Windows Timbermen
senior A squad lost
14-8 to the Victoria
Shamrocks on Friday
on the road, then
fell 11-7 to the Maple
Ridge Burrards on
Saturday at Frank
Crane Arena.
The losses dropped
the T-men to 5-13 and
the squad finished
in seventh and last
place in the Western
Lacrosse Association
this summer.
On Friday, Cayle
Ratcliff and Cody
Bremner each had
two goals and two
assists. Paul Brebber, Jake Emms, Kyle
Hofer and Jimmy
Delaney also tallied.
Zak Boychuk made
28 saves. Familiar
faces did the damage
for the Shamrocks as
Scott Ranger scored
five times, Cory Conway had eight points
and Blair Pinnock of
the Acme Timbermen
scored a hat trick.
In Saturday’s finale,
Delaney and Emms
had two-goal games
for Nanaimo and Ratcliff had a goal and
three helpers. Brebber and Hofer were
the other scorers.
Brandon Mulligan
made 25 saves.

Pirates come achingly close to championship

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Nanaimo Pirates pitcher Devon Geary throws during the B.C. Premier Baseball
League championships in Abbotsford on the weekend.

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The Nanaimo Palladian Pirates
junior baseball team closed out
its season this past weekend.
The team hosted doubleheaders at Serauxmen Stadium on
Saturday and Sunday, losing 7-5
and 3-2 to the Langley Blaze the
first day and then falling 12-1
and 6-2 to the North Delta Blue
Jays the next.
Aaron Page and Josh CarlessJones each had two hits in the
first game of the weekend and
North Rainey and Matthew Stevenson had two hits apiece in
the one-run game. Matt Skingle
had two RBIs in the last game of
the season.
The junior Pirates will miss
the B.C. Junior Premier Baseball
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semifinals, where this time they
had a winning result against
the Cardinals, 4-1. Nanaimo
compiled 10 hits in the game.
Olsen hit a single and a double
and Goodall, Alex Rogers and
Braeden Mousseau also had
two hits apiece. Luke Skingle
was the winning pitcher, allowing three hits over four shutout
innings of relief.
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and one earned run over 5 2/3
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The Nanaimo Pirates were literally one strike away from winning the championship.
The Hub City Paving Pirates
lost 3-2 to the Victoria Eagles
on Sunday in the B.C. Premier
Baseball League championship
game in Abbotsford.
The Pirates had built a 2-0
lead going into the seventh and
final inning, but the Eagles put
together four hits in the last
inning including a bases-loaded
walk-off single with two outs
and a two-strike count.
The Pirates started the tournament Friday with a 6-2 loss
to the Eagles. Devon Geary and
Tristan Olsen hit doubles in
that game, Brady Rogers had a
pair of RBIs and Shawn Arabsky
scored both Nanaimo runs.
The next day, the Pirates
edged the Vancouver Cannons
7-6 in extra innings. Rogers hit a
single and a double and Connor
Jones had two RBIs. Geary was
the winning pitcher after throwing two relief innings.
Nanaimo finished up the
round robin with a 4-2 loss to
the host Cardinals. Arabsky was
2-for-3.
The 1-2 record was enough for
the Pirates to advance to the

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It is with the deepest sadness that we announce the passing of Ken Medland,
surrounded by his family, after a difficult illness, met with courage and
fortitude. Ken was born in Chemainus, B.C. to Elinor Robertson and Henry
Medland. He was pre-deceased by his beloved wife, Marie, in December 2011.
Ken is survived by devoted daughters, Dorina Medland and Darlene Collinson;
very valued sons-in-law, Larry Dudeck and Ted Collinson. Three cherished
grandchildren of whom he was extremely proud, also survive: Jill Collinson
(Ben Lanthier), Alex Collinson, and Blair Dudeck. Also mourning his passing
are special cousins: Lorraine Buchanan, Fred Smith, Sally and Lorne Rozzano.
He further leaves countless life-long friends from his many community
involvements over the years, and a large extended family.
Ken was raised by his grandmother, Anne Little Robertson, in Ladysmith, B.C. He attended Ladysmith
High School where he excelled in academics, track and field, and softball. Ken attended U.B.C. and
graduated from its first Pharmacy class in 1949. He and Marie were married that year and he began
working for Cunningham Drugs, where he won the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Manager of the Year Awardâ&#x20AC;? four times. He became
a manager of the Terminal Park store which later became Shoppers Drug Mart. Ken retired in 1985 and he
and Marie were able to travel extensively in Canada, Europe, the United States, China, Israel and Mexico.
At retirement, he and Marie were then freed up to attend the activities of their three grandchildren. Ken
spent countless hours attending their games and other activities and giving them encouragement whenever
he could.
During his professional career Ken was also actively involved in civic politics as an Alderman (1965 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1975)
and was made a Freeman of the City of Nanaimo in 2009. He served on the newly amalgamated Nanaimo
City Council and the Nanaimo Regional District. Ken was secretary of the Nanaimo Timbermenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lacrosse
team when it won the Mann Cup in 1956 and president of the Nanaimo Labattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lacrosse team when it
won the 1960 B.C. Championship. He was inducted with the Timbermen in Nanaimoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Sports Hall of
Fame in 2008. Ken was a board member of the BC College of Pharmacists from 1986â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1990 and was a 1986
recipient of the A.H. Robbins â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bowl of Hygea Awardâ&#x20AC;? that recognizes pharmacists for community service.
Ken was a lifetime member of the Nanaimo Lions Club, since 1952, serving as president in 1965/66 and
the Nanaimo Curling Club, participating fully for over 60 years and was a past president. He was also a
vice-president of the Pacific Coast Masters Curling Association. He continued curling and volunteering
right up to December 2012.
Ken was also a member of the Nanaimo Probus Investment Club for many years and had served as vice
chair. Ken enjoyed the game of golf but his passion was curling. In 1998 he travelled with his great friend,
Nori Nishio, to Scotland to participate in the Strathcona Cup, representing Canada which won that year.
Ken organized many bonspiels over the years but he especially enjoyed the Nanaimo Family Bonspiel
and relished being the oldest curler participating each year, with his immediate family, for over ten years.
Ken believed in respect and equality for all people and he instilled these values in his daughters and
grandchildren by modeling them throughout his life. He had a great sense of humour, loved to tell jokes and
always did a stand-up performance at the Senior Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Curling wind-up. Ken had an outgoing personality
and loved to meet new friends wherever he went which continued right up to the end of his life.
A Celebration of Life will take place at the Nanaimo Curling Centre, 106 Wall Street, Nanaimo, BC on
Thursday, August 1st at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, if you wish, donations in Kenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory may be made
to the Nanaimo Curling Centre, 106 Wall Street, Nanaimo, BC or the Nanaimo Lions Club (larriet@shaw.
ca or jim-wilson@shaw.ca), or the charity of your choice.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just as the sun will set then rise with each and every dawn, the souls of those
who lived life well, eternally live on.â&#x20AC;?

It is with great sadness that we announce
the sudden passing
of Mildred (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Millieâ&#x20AC;?)
Anderson
(nee
Haughton) July 21st, 2013 at Nanaimo Regional
General Hospital, just short of her 80th birthday. She will be missed tremendously by her
daughter, Cathy (Ed) of Everett, Washington,
and her siblings Dorothy Hutchinson of Langley,
Pat Wright and Loraine Erickson of Nanaimo,
John Haughton of Kamloops, and Barb Moir of
Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, as well as by her many
nieces and nephews, and their children.
Millie was born in Kamloops, B.C. on July 24th,
1933, and was known throughout her life for her
great sense of humor and quick wit. She had a
creative mind and enjoyed all kinds of games,
especially word games and jigsaw puzzles. She
had an affinity for nature, and loved to spend
time outdoors, particularly near the ocean.
Millie lived in both Kamloops and Vancouver
during her working years, and developed many
long-standing friendships through her employment at Royal Inland Hospital (1970â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) and at
Vancouver Vocational Institute (1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s).
She retired to Nanaimo in 1994, and made many
new friends through her participation in seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
classes at Bowen Park, as well as through her
unique ability to connect with people she met in
her everyday activities.
Millie didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t own a car, but with her knapsack
on her back, she walked everywhere she could,
even as her health declined. She believed in
self-determination, hard work, laughter, and
the importance of gratitude. She loved her family, and enjoyed spending time with them, both
in person and â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sometimes for hours â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on the
phone. Her passing leaves us with a gap in our
hearts and a lot less laughter in our lives.
There will be no service by request. Condolences
may be offered at telfordn@shaw.ca
Telfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nanaimo
250-591-6644

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Earl passed away peacefully
at home with his loving
companion, Evelyn, at his side.
Special thanks to Dr. Desai,
the community therapists,
home care nurses and home
support workers for making this
possible.
He will be missed by his family
and friends (especially those
4-legged ones!).
A gathering to celebrate and remember Earlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life
will be held on Saturday, August 10, 2-4pm
at Bradley Centre, 975 Shearme Road
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Grower Direct, Sears Portrait Studio and
Dairy Queen would like to help you celebrate
and acknowledge those special birthday and
anniversary events of family and friends.

We will publish all names provided, if received prior to the 4 p.m. Thursday deadline.
The Birthday and Anniversary dates must occur next week. No ages will be published.
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With
heavy
hearts
we
announce
the
sudden
passing of Cory Allen Cobb.
Born August 3, 1962, Cory
leaves behind his wife of 31
years Lisa and their son Jake
as well as their animals Jack,
Lucy and Witchie; parents
Owen and Kathy; sister Trina
(Warren) and their children
Alina, Justin, Ashlynn and
Foster; brother Randy (Kari)
and their daughter Abbie; Inlaws Mike and Leona; sister in
law Tracey (Ron) and their children Krista and Kayla; brother
in law Jason (Stacey) and their children Addison and Grace;
special friends Jenelle (Jenellibean) and Nolan as well as
many aunts, uncles, cousins and good friends.
Cory was an amazing father, friend and artist.
Please join us Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 2:00 pm at The
Duncan Community Lodge (2244 Moose Road) for the
Celebration of Life. In lieu of flowers a donation can be made
at an Branch of the Island Savings Credit Unions, C/O Lisa
Cobb in Memory of Cory Cobb. Online condolences may be
made at www.hwwallacecbc.com

H.W. Wallace
5285 Polkey Rd.
250-701-0001

PROTEAU, Isabella
(Isabel) Carlotta

January 17, 1923 ~ July 20, 2013
Isabella Carlotta
Proteau, also known
as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isabelâ&#x20AC;? to family
and friends, passed
away peacefully this
past Saturday, July
20, 2010, in Nanaimo,
B.C. Isabel was 90
years old. She is
survived by son, Ed
(Jean);
daughter,
Lynn (Rich); and
grandchildren:
Jim
(Christina),
Lori (Ashley), Curtis (Jenica), Michelle; and
granddaughters: Harper, Charlie and Taylor. She was
predeceased by her loving husband, Mac; her sisters:
Renee, Olga, Irene; and brother Chester as well as her
parents, Azzo and Domenica Bonora.
Isabel met the love of her life, Mac, in Nanaimo.
They were married for 60 wonderful years. She was
a loving wife, caring mother, dedicated sister. She will
be missed by many; forgotten by none.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Branch #256
Legion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1630 East Wellington Rd, Nanaimo, B.C.
(Bowen Road) on Monday, August 12, 2013 from
2:00p.m. to 4:00p.m. Flowers are gratefully declined.

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Earl died peacefully at home, aged 91. He is
survived by Dorothy, his wife of 68 years;
eight children, 17 grandchildren, and 12
great-grandchildren. He was born in Montreal and served in the Royal Canadian Navy
his entire career, joining during World War
II. Earl and Dorothy lived in Victoria for
many years and recently moved to Nanaimo
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The family wishes to express its profound
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